Lest We Forget
Today is Trafalgar Day, when the Royal Navy remembers the decisive victory over the combined French and Spanish fleets in the Napoleonic Wars. From that point onward, France never posed a serious threat to the British Isles.
There would not be another naval battle on the same scale until Jutland in World War I, over a century later, and not a naval battle so decisive until Midway in World War II, which turned the tide of the Japanese advance in the Pacific.
There would not be another naval battle on the same scale until Jutland in World War I, over a century later, and not a naval battle so decisive until Midway in World War II, which turned the tide of the Japanese advance in the Pacific.